I taked abut pixels... like a month a ago!

So the pixel talk went well. I practiced just about everyday for a whole month while I planned it out because I didn’t want to get up there and pull a blank or sound like a fool. I it seems to have worked. I was told by lot of people afterwards that they really enjoyed my presentation. I’ve even been asked to go and speak with the graduating animation class at Algonquin and maybe even give the same speech to the Game Developers class. That it pretty cool I think ^_^ Next step is to write out the presentation so I can distribute it to those that couldn’t be at the summit and maybe, just maybe, I’ll want to turn this in to a book. I think that would a great thing to add to ones resume and a neat thing to tell my daughter.

In the meantime I’ve been drawing as usual and getting back in to picture taking. In this latest batch I decided not to let the limits of my camera get me down. I took pictures with out the flash (Which results in a huge shutter delay and usually blurry pictures) and I used the digital zoom that my daughter found on the camera the other day (she’s 2) but the pictures generally come out all pixely when I use it. But I didn’t care; I was going to see what I could do with out worrying about all that. The results seemed to be okay, but I quickly realized that our camera hates, hates, hates, night shots. The colours turn out ugly in my opinion, but alas… Ya take what you can get.

On top of all that I’ve been keeping up to date on the whole Xbox 360 thing. Man, talk about crazy! People getting robbed on the way home, others on ebay shelling out over $1000 bucks for the system and just plain mass hysteria at stores. Now, I’m all for getting things when they first come out, it’s nice and you feel kinda special, but come on! People would buy their system, walk out of the store and have people be offering twice the amount for the blasted thing! I heard others where willing to pay hundreds of dollars just to get further in line! Crazy I tells ya. It reminds me of way back in the 90’s where people where stealing new Nike Air and Reebok Pump shoes or even mugging people for them. I just wonder if some of those people that shelled out $1000+ dollars for an Xbox woke up the next day, looked at their new system and wondered… oh god… what have I done, like it was the morning after some crazy drunk’n party… probably none of them but it’s funny to think it.

I'm gonna talk about pixels damn it!

Well, I've been wanting to post about this for some time now but I just haven't found the time. It would seem that I'm going to be talking at the Montreal International Game Summit, my topic. Pixel art in and out side of games (I chose it myself).

The question as to wether or not I would talk at this thing came in about a month ago. How could I pass it up. Something like this would look great on a resume, not that I'm shopping around for a new job. So here I sit, with a power point presentation on a CD and enough cue cards on pixel work to choke a horse (or at least fill one hour I hope), I do my talk tomorrow (Nov 2nd) at 2:00pm infront of 100+ people from the game industry. I'm nervous, but I believe that's a good thing. I don't want to go in all cocky. To be honest, after this is all done, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my time. This has taken up all the spare moments I have available including my train time to and from work each day. After tomorrow I guess I can get back to taking pictures, playing games and drawing... what a crazy thought.

So wish me luck. This could start a new chapter of my life or at the vary least something to tell my daughter when I get older. Tomorrow should prove to be interesting.

I guess I'll show some of my own pixel work in this post. It seems only fitting.